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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
v^EBRUAKY 12, 1919
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. V, NO. 12
"Edirorial Board t B. C. Branson, J. G. deK. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, D. D. Carroll, G. M. McKie
Entered as second-olass matter November 14,1914, at the rPostofflee at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912.
A GRAHAM MEMORIAL BUILDING
THE GRAHAM MEMORIAL
111 accord with a .sentiment widely pre-
fevalent among University students, alum-
aii, faculty memliera, and trustees, and
the citi/.ena of the state generally, a per-
Mianent memorial is to be erected on the
university campus to the late President
Edward Kidder ( Jraham.
. Such is the decision of the joint com
mittee that recently met in Raleigti in the
Xrovt rnor’s office. The memoria! will be
a Student Activities Building and the es
timated cost is $150,000.
This building will house all the volun
teer activities of the student Vwdy; the Y.
M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., the Di and
T'hi Literary Societies, the North Caroli
na Club and the County Clubs, the Caro
lina Playmakers, the University publica
tions., the Menorah Society, the music
•clubs, and all other accredited organiza
tions of like sort. It will al^ contain a
badly needed auditorium for the public
purposes of these organizations, and a
reception room for the alumni and tiie
friends and relatives visiting the students
of the institution.
community affairs among the men from
the various counties.
Another most important detail will be
the headquarters or club room for alumni
returning to the Hill, and a reception
room for the relatives and friends of the
students visiting them at the University-
These facilities are conspicuously lacking
at present, and for a long time the need
for them has been felt.
Offices and meeting rooms for the other
campus organizations, such as dramatic
and musical clubs, the Menorah society,
the Athletic Council, the Students Coun
cil, etc., and an auditorium adequate for
the public needs of tliese and other or
ganizations are part of the plan.
A Fitting Tribute
The joint committee bad a two-fold
purjjose in deciding upon this structure:
■1) the erection of a building which Pres
ident Graliam recognized as one of
the most urgent needs of the Univer-
-sity and for which lie was thinking
and planning at tlie time of his death,
and (2) the provision of a student center
where faculty members and students and
all college organizations and activities
■will be brought together in comfortable
■comradeship, thereby making possible the
fuller and richer development of Carolina
campus life. Such a building the com
mittee thought would be the sort pi me
morial that would best express his wish
and be most appropriate.
Outgrown Facilities
Anyone familiar with present condi
tions realizes as keenly as President Gra
ham ever did the urgent necessity for such
a building, as well as the great opportu
nity for constructive development of stu-
deift life which it affords. The old-time
■facilities of the University liave been out
grown. Tlie present Y. M. C. A. build
ing was erected in 1904. It was an at
tempt by the generous donors to house
student activities wlieu tlie student body
numbered only 400. With a student
body, mimhering over 1200, and prospects
of a rapid, steady increase in tlie years
•ahead, togetiier witli tlie multiplicity of
activities and organizations attendant
aipoji this development, college life at the
University today is cramped and dwarf-
•ed. Witliout an adequate liome for tliese
artivities tlie Institution will fail to afibrd
the stimulus tiiat is necessary to growth
ami onrichment.
T^e Building Will^Contain
The Graham Memorial Building vyill
siielter in fitting fashion a great variety
of .student activities tliat now' are home-
le.ss- ft will draw' together and fittingly
co-ordinate activities already existent,
and provide for tlie expression of needs
keetd.y felt Init iiitherto suppressed. It
vdb contain tlie Y. M. and Y. W .C. A.
■ -with greatly increased facilities for service.
There is no need to suggest iiere the val
ue of tiiese organizations to a college
coimtuuiity. Tiie Dialectic aud Pliilan-
throi-tic, Societies wiiich liave been in-
Htrumenta! i« training so many of our
pufilicfea^lers, will probably occupy the
•right and left wings of tlie structure. It
will i»e headquarters for all college pub
lications, such as the Tar Heel, the Uni-
ve.ruity News l.etter, tlie University
Ma.gazine, Ttie Alumni Iteview, etc , on
whose staffs some of our ablest uewspapi'r
men received tlie early training for their
tiater careers.
ft vvili funiisii a home for the North
Carolina Club, wliich tlirougli its News
Letter, its County Cluli Studies, and its
Year Book sent free to all wi.o ask for it,
is leudering sucli conspicuous service to
North Clarolina, aud wdiich has focussed
upon it tlie attention of tlie State and the
coiuitry at large. Here with tlie officers
of tiie various County Clubs grouped
about it, it conid still furtlier stimulate
public interest in social problems and
A State*Wide Proposition
To limit the contributions to the Gra
ham Memorial Fund to the students, the
former students, and the alumni of the
University alone would exclude a still
larger number of people in North Caroli
na who realize that President Graham’s
service was peculiarly a state-wide service
and that the memorial, like the man in
wliose memory it is to be erected, is to be
dedicated to the daily .service of all the
people of the state.
President Graham made the University
of North Carolina a state university in
fact as w'ell as in name—a synonym of
service to all the people. As President
of the North Carolina Conference for So
cial Service, The North Carolina Teach
ers' Assembly, and originator of the
Civic Service Week in North Carolina,
he was at the source of the vital currents
of life in the state. His work here was
wrought with such ability and sucli vis
ion that the attention of public leaders
throughout the country was focussed on
North Carolina and its university. His
judgment was sought on every great na
tional educational venture that was pro
posed. As president of the University of
North Carolina, as Director of the Student
Army Training Corps for the South At
lantic States, as Director of the American
University Union in Paris, and as a mem
her of the International Committee of
the Y. M. C. A., he was a constructive
leader in broad and varied fields of Am
erican life.
This building in his name is to be sym
bolic of the service he rendered in its
completeness, and it should represent the
contributions of all whom he served.
The appeal is universal. Every county
in the state is represented in the Univer
sity student body during tlie regular aud
summer school terms, and the proposed
memorial will be in daily use by students
and teachers wlio come from every com
munity in North Carolina. Community
contributions will be community invest
ments in the sons and daughtere of every
community in tliis state.
Method of Contribution
On Monday, February 10th, an inten
sive campaign to raise funds for the
erection of the Graham Memorial will be
launched in every community in North
Carolina. There will be a director of the
fund in every town. Contributions may
be in casli or in pledges maturing on or
at any time previous to June 1, 1920.'
They sliould be made througii the local
director of the campaign so that report
may be made on the amount contributed
by eacli community. For pledge cards
or furtliex information concerniug the
Graham IMemorial see the Director of the
Graham Memorial Fund in your com
munity or write to Albert M. Coates, Ex
ecutive Secretary, Gliapel Hill. N. C.
CAROLINA CLUB SCHEDULE
Last year the fortnightly meetings of
the North Carolina Club at the University
were devc.ted to “County Government
and County Affairs in Carolina.’’ The
Club Year-Book of 200 jiages and 26
cliapters is iio*v going free of charge to
the people of tlie state wdio want it,
and to tlie people of other states for 75
cents a copy.
This year the studies of the Club will
be concentrated upon “Carolina, Urban
and Industrial.’’ The reports and dis
cussions are scheduled as follows:
1. The Cityward Drift of Country Pop
ulations in North Carolina: (1) the facts,
(2) the causes, (3) the economic and so-
THE GENTLEMAN
If a man be gracious and courteous
to strangers, it sliows he is a citizen of
the world, and that his heart is no is
land cut off from other lands, but a
continent that joins to them.
If he easily pardons and remits of
fenses, it allows that his mind is plant
ed above injuries, ®o that lie cannot
be sliot. If lie be thankful for small
benefits, it shows tliathe weighs men’s
minds, and not their trash.—Bacon.
cial significance.—Albert M. Coates,
Jolinston county.
A Larger Urban Population will be
Conducive to the Beat Interests of North
Carolina.—a discussion led by S. H.
tVillis, Guilford county, and E. S. Mer
ritt, Craven county. Jan. 27.
2. Town and Country Interdependen
cies.—E. (-1. Branson, of the University
faculty.
Local Markets for Home-Kaised Food
stuffs, the Most Important Business Prob
lem of our Cities.'—a discussion led by
E. S. Merritt, Craveli county and R. C.
Maxwell, Wake county. Feb. 10.
3. Our rapidly Expanding Industrial
Life: (1) the facts, (2) the problems creat
ed, (3) a look ahead.—J. Y. Baggett,
Sampson county.
Home-ownership the most important
Social Problem of our Town and Factory
Centers.—a discussion led by W. H.
Anderson, Jr., Edgecombe county, and
J. V. Price, Rockingham county. Feb. 24.
4. Forms of City Government: (1)
Council, (2) Commission, (3) City-Mana
ger.—W. M. York, Guilford county.
Towns of 5,000 Inhabitants should
Adopt the City-Manager Plan of Govern
ment.—a discussion led by W. H. Wil
liamson, Jr., Chatham county, and F.
G. Miles, Warren county. March 10.
5. City Finance; Analysis of Needs
and Consideration of Income.—D, D.
Carroll, of the University faculty.
The Separation of State and Local
Sources of Revenue.—a discussion led by
D. L. Grant, Onslow county, and W. M.
York, Guilford county. March 17.
6. Municipal Ownership of Public
Utilities: (1) the facts in North Carolina,
(2) elsewhere, (3) conclusions.—C. L.
Raper, of the University faculty.
; is Municipal Ownership a Failure?—a
discussion led by R. B. Gwynn, Rocking
ham county, and M. M. Jernigan, Har
nett county. April 7.
7. Our Chambers of Commerce: (1)
the facta, (2) the old order of activities,
(3) the new order; instances.—xVlbert M.
Coates, Johnston county.
The Chief Function of a Chamber of
Commerce is to Promote Prosperity in the
Surrounding Trade Territory.—a discus
sion led by W. H. Bobbitt, Mecklenburg
county, and Donald Yan Noppen, Guil
ford county. April 21,
8. Health Departments, Public Hos
pitals, and Public Health Nursing in
Carolina Cities: (1) the facts, (2) tlie ne
cessities.—Miss Ernestine Noa, of the
University Department of Rural Eco
nomics.
Public Health Nurses are Indisiiensa-
ble to City Welfare.—a discussion led by
Miss Caroline Goforth, Caldwell county,
and Miss Minnie S. Sparrow, Gaston
county. May 5.
9. Juvenile Delinquents in Carolina:
(1) Reformatory Schools, (2) Juvenile
Courts and Probation Cfficers—the facts;
suggestions.—Mrs. T. W. Liiigle, of the
State Welfare Board.
Towns of 5,000 Inhabitants or more
should Maintain a Juvenile Court.—a
discussion led by T. J. Brawley, Gaston
county, and Natiian Mobley, Mecklen
burg county. May 19.
10. Vocational Education in Town
and Factory Centers in North Carolina:
(1) the facts, (2) tlie iK‘C(«sititv, (3) tiie
opportunities under the Smith-Hughes
Bill.—L. A. Williams, of tlie University
faculty.
Carolina Towns sliould maintain a de
partment of Vocational Education.—a
discussion led by F. C.. Kay, .lolinston
county, and W. P. Andrew.s, Mecklen
burg county. June 2.
N. C. Club Officers
The Club officers for 1918-19 are as fol
lows ;
President, Albert 51. Coates, Johnston
county.
Vice-President and Secretary, J. V.
Baggett, vSanipson county.
Steering Committee: D. D. Carrcll, C.
L. Raper, and E. 0. Branson, all of the
University faculty.
Executive Committee: W. M. York,
W. H. Bobbitt, R. C. Maxwell,,.!. V.
Bat^tett, and A. M. Coates,
Publicity Comniittce: E. W. Madry,
F. G. Miles, and H. V. Koonls.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 157
WHAT THINK YE 7
Do you think that the democracy for
which we fought to make the world safe
is only a political democracy? Do you
think we fought only to give equality of
political rights to those who had them
not? Was the war recently won, a war
only for political freedom?
If you think any of these thoughts you
have grasped a part of the cause for which
we fought—and only a part. We did not
go into tills war to make polidcal free
dom, justice, equality possible for all na
tions of the world. But we hoped to do
much more'than merely to open political
doors. To make the world safe for polit
ical democracy was a very small part of
our job.
Not Political Only
Ignorance, bigotry, superstition, are no
less enemies to the progre^ and safety of
mankind than is political oppression and
slavery. You can give a nation freedom
from political tyranny and yet not make
the conditions of living one whit more
pleasant or agreeable. Look at Russia—she
set herself free from political despotism
and in her ignorance (some 70 per cent
of her people are illiterate), she has' laid
out a course for herself infinitely more
dangerous and immeasurably less helpful
than the course she was travelling under
the old order.
There must be developed in the minds
and thoughts of citizens a spirit of de
mocracy, a willingness for freedom and
equality, and tliat equality, that freedom
must be for all in all their activities.
A Great Assurance
If you accept such a point of vie\^' you
must see how it means freedom and
equality in the search for truth wherever
found. The beginning of that search
comes in our elementary and secondary
schools. Freedom to think, opportunity
to study, equality of privilege to searcli
for the hidden meanings of the world are
the democratic right of our boys and
girls.
If we cannot guarantee to them these
rights, if we cannot assure them of de
mocracy in education as well as in poli
tics then we have made our great sacri
fices of materials, of money and men, as
a mere sop to the greed and avarice of
political self-seeking.
Is Democracy Safe 7
There can be no world safe for democ
racy that is not an intelligent and well-
informed world. There can be no satis
factory freedom if the free men are given
less than an equal opportunity to lift
themselves from superstition and half
knowledge toward the light of truth and
full knowledge.
Democracy is not safe with an ignorant
people. We have still to make the world
safe for democracy over here.
STATE UNIVERSITY SUPPORT |
In 1917 forty four state-supported uni- j
versities and colleges in the United
States received from the state treasury for
running expenses amounts ranging from
$4,534 in New Jersey to $3,106,673 in
California.
In North Carolina the Universjty re
ceived from this source $186,531, and our
rank was 25th. Which is to say, twenty-
four states stood ahead of us. Five of these
were southern states—namely, Georgia
$208,651, Kentucky $248,447, Arizona
$255,490, Oklahoma, $383,681, and Texas
$711,682.
Nebraska, with a white population
300,000 smaller than North Carolina,
gave more than a million dollars for uni
versity support in 1917, Wisconsin nearly
two million dollars, and California more
than three million dollars. See the table
prepared by Mr. H. 51. Hopkins, and
presented elsewliere in this issue.
Fixed Annual Support
lu twenty-nine states the maintenance
fund that supports the university depends
upon the will of the legislature from ses
sion to session.
In thirteen states the annual support
fund of the university is assured by a
fixed mill rate ranging from one-twen
tieth of one mill in Kentucky and Oliio
to a full mill in Nebraska and Illinois.
These universities are Colorado, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minne
sota, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio State, Ore
gon, tVashington, Wisconsin, and Wy
oming. Tennessee gives to her univer
sity two and a third per cent of the gross
revenues of the state, and Utah nearly
two-thirds of 28 per cent of the state lei y
of tw'o mills.
Gray’s Budget Bill
Senator Gray’s Budget Bill which our
legislature is now considering offers North
Carolina a similar basis for the support
of her university and other state institu
tions. The permanent Budget Commis
sion he proposes to create ought to be
able, as in 15 other ^ates, to pass wisely
upon the values and necessities of the va
rious state institutions and present to the
legislature from session to session an ap
propriation bill that safeguards the state
on the one hand and guarantees the
steady development of her welfare agen
cies on the otlier.
This Budget Commission could put each
of our institutions of benevolence, tech
nical training, and liberal arts on the
basis of a fixed mill rate, as in 15 states
already mentioned.
Virginia is now re-ordering her finances
on the budget plan under a permanent
Budget Commission. AVhy not North
Carolina?
STATE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATIONS
Based on the Federal Education Bureau Bulletin No. 55 covering the year 1916-17.
H. M. HOPKINS, University of North Carolina, 1918-19.
Rank Universities State Appr’n
1. California $3,106,673
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
Illinois *. ..
Wisconsin*.
Ohio State*.
5Iinnesota*.
Michigan* .
2,575,129
1,813,033
1,580,981
1,518,010
1,434,385
Nebraska * 1,089,096
Iowa
New York—Cornell..
Texas-
Ai issouri
M’ashington *
Kansas
Indiana*
Penn. State College .
Oregon*
West Virginia ......
Oklahoma
Coloroilo *
Nevada *
Arizona
Kentucky*
855,500
806,340
711,682
638.447
635,829
635.000
570.000
497,754
468,249
410,263
383,681
300.000
258,061
255,490
248.447
Rank Universities
23.
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27.
28.
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30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
85.
36.
37.
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40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
Utah *
Georgia .. .;
North Carolina
Montana
5Iaine
lx)uisiana
North Dakota
Tennessee *
Wyoming*
Arkansas
South Dakota
Idaho
R. I. State College
South Carolina
Virginia
New Mexico
Florida
Vermont
Alabama
5Iississippi
Delaware State College...
New Jersey, Rutgers ..
State Appr'n
$212,065
208,651
186,531
175.000
171,572
169,694
160,143
154,718
146,935
133,853
129.000
127,236
125,500
96,654
90.000
74,313
65,809
58,800
45.000
43,650
38,804
4,534
Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, and New Hampshire maintain no stato
universities and colleges.
Tlie state universities starred (*) receive supjxirt from a definite mill tax rate
ranging from a twentieth of one mill in Ohio and Kentucky to a full mill in Nebras
ka aud Illinois. Tennessee gives to her university 2 1-3 per cent of tlie* gross revc-
nes orthe.state, and Utah nearly two-thirds of 28[>ercentof the state levy of two
mills.